Letters and Politics

The Suppression of Speech in WWI & Economic Challenges for A Biden Presidency

Part 1: The Economic Challenges for the Biden Presidency

Guest: Robert Pollin, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the co-author of the book Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal.

 

Part II: The Suppression of Speech in WWI and Why It Matters Today

Guest: Eric Chester, taught economics at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and San Francisco State University. A committed activist for more than fifty years, he was vice-presidential candidate for the Socialist Party in 1996.  His latest book is Free Speech and the Suppression of Dissent During World War I